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Facts about Picher

Picher is also known as: Ottawa County / Picher city.

Picher is a ghost town and former city in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States. Much of the land was originally owned by the Quapaw after Indian Removal. In the early 20th century, mining took place initially under federal leases of these lands but the Quapaw did not receive a fair share of royalties and were generally excluded from the thousands of mining jobs in the region. In 2000 they comprised a significant minority of the population in the city. This was a major national center of lead and zinc mining at the heart of the Tri-State Mining District. More than a century of unrestricted subsurface excavation dangerously undermined most of Picher's town buildings and left giant piles of toxic metal-contaminated mine tailings (known as chat) heaped throughout the area. The discovery of the cave-in risks, groundwater contamination, and health effects associated with the chat piles and subsurface shafts resulted in the site being included in 1980 in the Tar Creek Superfund Site by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The state collaborated on mitigation and remediation measures, but a 1996 study found that 34% of the children in Picher suffered from lead poisoning due to these environmental effects, which could result in lifelong neurological problems. Eventually EPA and the state of Oklahoma agreed to a mandatory evacuation and buyout of the entire township. The similarly contaminated satellite towns of Treece, Kansas and Cardin, Oklahoma were included in the Tar Creek Superfund site.A 2006 Army Corps of Engineers study showed 86% of Picher's buildings (including the town school) were badly undermined and subject to collapse at any time. The destruction of 150 homes by an F4 tornado in May 2008 accelerated the exodus. On September 1, 2009, the state of Oklahoma officially dis-incorporated the city of Picher.The town ceased official operations on September 1, 2009 and the population plummeted from 1,640 at the 2000 census to 20 at the 2010 census. As of January 2011, only six homes and one business remain, their owners having refused to leave at any price. The rest of the town's buildings, except designated historical structures, were scheduled to be demolished by the end of the year.Picher is among a small number of locations in the world (such as Gilman, Colorado, Centralia, Pennsylvania, and Wittenoom, Western Australia) to be evacuated and declared uninhabitable due to environmental and health damage caused by the mines the town once serviced.The closest towns to Picher, other than nearby Cardin, Treece and Douthat, are Commerce, Quapaw (the headquarters of the nation by that name) and Miami, Oklahoma

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Appetizing meals are provided to residents, nurses are on staff, an on-call doctor is available to help, physical therapy can be done without leaving the community by a visiting physical therapist, transportation is available for additional cost, the property is convenient to local bus lines, and this community was built in 1996.

Healthy meals are provided to residents, nurses are on staff, a podiatrist visits the community to address any issues related to your feet, speech therapy is offered via a speech therapist who comes to the community regularly, residents who drive will find parking available to them, transportation is available for additional cost, and Bristol Manor Of Carthage is close to major busses.

55 is the minimum age allowed for residents, a podiatrist visits the community to address any issues related to your feet, trained staff monitors medication and reminds residents when it’s time to take them, resident parking is available to residents who drive, complimentary transportation is handy for residents, hospice is an option available at this location, and respite care is offered.

Tasty meals are provided to residents, nurses are on staff, a visiting podiatrist helps keep your feet healthy, speech therapy is offered via a speech therapist who comes to the property regularly, resident parking is available to residents who drive, the community is convenient to bus lines in the area, and this community was built in 1994.

Kosher menu options are available for all meals, vegetarian food is provided, regular occupational therapy by a visiting therapist helps you stay active and engaged, full-service medication administration is available, residents who drive will find parking available to them, this location was renovated in 2012, and the community is licensed for 40 residents.

Nurses are on staff, an on-call doctor is available to help, regular occupational therapy by a visiting therapist helps you stay active and engaged, staff can help residents monitor their blood sugar, trained staff monitors medication and reminds residents when it’s time to take them, this property administers patient medications, and residents can arrange for a room at this property that will allow them to live in this location whatever their healthcare needs are and become.

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